May 2013
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The first And The Mountains Echoed copy sold at Octavia Books in New Orleans on publication day. They opened early to sell the new Khaled Hosseini novel!
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The Washington Post raves about Khaled Hosseini's...
“Nuance is rare on the bestseller list. In most cases, ambiguity is stripped away to appeal to the greatest number and lowest common denominator. So it always renews my faith when a popular novelist shows a decided preference for moral complexity. It suggests that readers crave more than simplistic escape. Or perhaps it just means that some writers, like Khaled Hosseini, know how to whisk...
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Sue Halpern and her dog Pransky! To read an excerpt from her book, A Dog Walks Into a Nursing Home in Parade Magazine, click here.
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Want to get a sneak peak at THE HOTTEST read of the summer, before the book hits stands? Click any of the links below to download a free preview of THE YONAHLOSSEE RIDING CAMP FOR GIRLS by Anton DiSclafani, out from Riverhead June 4.
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The Interestings author Meg Wolitzer gives a...
“In the acknowledgments to your book, you call Riverhead’s Geoffrey Kloske an “excellent and, yes, feminist publisher.” What did you mean by that?
VIDA had done a series about the number of women writers published at the various companies, and Riverhead came out very well. And it’s not just that. Looking at what they’ve published over the years, he publishes...
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Comedienne Lizz Winstead Would Really Like to Know... →
“It’s some kind of walnut-y, vinaigrette-y, thyme-y thing and it’s f-cking awesome.”
We love the NYC diet of Lizz Winstead, author of Lizz Free or Die!
Unpoetic Day Jobs, and Other News →
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April 2013
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Riot Round-Up: The Best Books We Read in April →
Rebecca Schinsky @rebeccaschinsky at BookRiot says Sarah Waters’ FINGERSMITH is the best book she read in April, describing how “Waters unravels the plot with gorgeous writing and masterful shifts in narrative voice.”
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Entertainment Weekly on Meg Wolitzer's THE...
“A victory … The Interestings secures Wolitzer’s place among the best novelists of her generation… . She’s every bit as literary as Franzen or Eugenides. But the very human moments in her work hit you harder than the big ones. This isn’t women’s fiction. It’s everyone’s.”—Entertainment Weekly (A)
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March 2013
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Jon Ronson's TED talk on psychopaths →
Did you know several characteristics of psychopaths are rewarded in our society? Check out Jon Ronson’s fascinating TED talk and read the whole story in his book The Psychopath Test.
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Check out Mohsin Hamid’s NPR “Fresh...
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“Serious, yet accessible, realistic without being alarmist, this could be the...”
– Publishers Weekly gives Mary Pipher’s forthcoming book, The Green Boat, a starred review. Check out the entire review of this stunning, special book by clicking the link below.
http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-59448-585-5
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"Bracingly inventive...It might be the best book... →
V Magazine talks to Moshin Hamid about HOW TO GET FILTHY RICH IN RISING ASIA
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February 2013
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Comma Fails! →
25 hilarious reasons why we love our copy editors at Riverhead Books!
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Tickets for ME, JOHN HODGMAN, in Portland Oregon →
Hey Portland Friends!
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Sylabussing with David Foster Wallace →
Awesome glimpse at a 1994 Lit syllabus from Professor David Foster Wallace. Required titles include Lonesome Dove and Jackie Collins’ Rock Star?! Sign us up!
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Sunday, 2/24 – THE PAINTED GIRLS ebook is $2.99...
To purchase your limited time $2.99 ebook offer, download The Painted Girls by Cathy Marie Buchanan from one of these retailers:
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A heartrending, gripping novel about two sisters in Belle Époque Paris.
1878 Paris. Following their father’s sudden death, the van Goethem sisters find their lives upended. Without his wages, and with the small amount their laundress mother...
